Maxim Agapitov is celebrating a court decision to overturn a ruling by the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

Maxim Agapitov, the Russian who was replaced as leader of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) yesterday, has been reprimanded by a disciplinary body.

About 40 members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have written to the governing body to say they will not be silenced throughout the Constitutional Congress on June 30.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should hold its delayed elections before the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games or the sport’s chances of retaining its place on the Olympic programme will suffer.

Candidates for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections next month are being asked to sign a document that contravenes the governing body’s Constitution, according to the IWF’s former director general Attila Adamfi.

Candidates from around the world have complained that new rules for the forthcoming International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections are "unworkable, chaotic and impossible to follow in the short time allowed."

Nations from around the world have written to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to express their dismay at the governing body’s failure to publish the list of candidates for forthcoming elections.

Attila Adamfi is planning a return to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) as general secretary, four months after leaving by "mutual consent".

Former International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) director general Attila Adamfi has accused Richard McLaren of trying to produce false evidence and forging documents to support allegations of corruption at the governing body.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has begun its search for the new role of chief executive this week after the departure of its director general Attila Adamfi.

The future of Attila Adamfi, director general of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is "under legal review" following the publication of the McLaren Independent Weightlifting Investigation, said the governing body’s Interim President, Ursula Papandrea.

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) put weightlifting's place on the Games schedule under threat on June 9, 2017, there were many within the sport who feared the worst, with good reason.

The recent spate of doping violations in weightlifting - 22 athletes suspended in the past three months - and the method of their detection sends a clear message to everyone in the sport that cheats will be caught.

There are many within the weightlifting world who believe it will be a matter of life and death when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sits in judgement on their sport in Lausanne this week.

Gender equality has been achieved in weightlifting after the total number of female bodyweight categories was officially increased to eight at a meeting in Beijing.